Some interesting discussion about trust metrics have
arisen since bagder posted the advogato
stats. I'm bemused by the Linux vs BSD stuff - I guess the
BSD crowd are seen as outsiders which they were, but
I see that lilo deliberately formed an
alliance by identifying Masters in the BSD community
and certifying them directly to that level.

It seems I am a beneficiary of that alliance as many of
the people who have certified me are involved with BSD.
ovec points out that you can have 5
apprentice certifications and still be observer hey
that's me!Ovec also notes that a sociological factor may
also be operating which I suspect is also true. I've been
working with computers (on and off) since 1978, I'm really
not that keen on becoming an apprentice, but then
I'm an outsider and <admission>commercial software
developer</admission> no-one here knows me, and there
may be other things about my contributions that set me
apart. But I agree, it is odd that it seems difficult to
make apprentice, but easy to make journeyer.

Well, I'm continuing my experiment with advogato. I've
been considering projects that I can initiate etc. At
present my biggest (almost open source) contribution is
Te Pukapuka Kura Maori which is a 19th century Maori
language school reader that I laboriously typed and placed
on the web. I've talked elsewhere about my plans to do some
development work on advogato and an RTF to web application
based on style sheets. I've installed one of the alpha
releases of advogato on my test server, but I haven't got
it going yet. (The module is listed on server-info, but the
<location> returns zero-length data to my
browser).